In the end times, many children bring more blessings. I pick up a goddess every day.

"The core of the maze has finally appeared!" Liu Yang's eyes flashed with a gleam of light... Although his spiritual power had been depleted by more than half... and the shield was also covered with cracks... but he did not retreat at all...

He simultaneously took out the Soul Prison Pearl, the Purgatory Pearl, the Space Pearl, the Myriad Demons Pearl, the Dream Core, and the Final Hell Pearl... The six beads hovered in front of him... emitting six different lights: gray, purple, blue, red, light blue, and dark gold...

"Six kinds of power... fuse!" Liu Yang formed seals with his hands... Six beads flew towards his palms simultaneously... Six kinds of light intertwined in his palms... forming a six-colored energy ball... As soon as the energy ball took shape... the surrounding space and time began to vibrate violently... Even the space-time vortex in the center showed signs of stagnation...

Liu Yang seized this opportunity... and raised the energy ball above his head... The ice and fire blades condensed around the energy ball, forming a huge double-bladed shadow... "Netherworld Purgatory: Six-Colored Spacetime Break!" With his roar... The double-bladed shadow, carrying the energy ball, slashed towards the spacetime vortex...

"Boom—" The moment this blow collided... the entire 85th floor of the void fell into a dead silence...

The six-colored light and the silver-blue force of spacetime collided violently in mid-air... Countless fragments of spacetime were shattered into dust... The spacetime vortex began to shrink violently... But just as the energy ball was about to penetrate the core of the vortex... A huge spacetime barrier suddenly emerged from the vortex... and abruptly blocked the attack...

"It's not over yet!" Liu Yang's eyes flashed with determination... He injected the last bit of spiritual power in his body into the energy ball... At the same time, he bit his tongue... and spurted out a mouthful of blood... The blood fell on the energy ball... The six-colored light instantly surged... The size of the double-edged shadow increased by three times... and he forcibly tore a crack in the space-time barrier...

"Sizzle!" The energy ball pierced through the cracks and into the vortex of space-time... A dazzling light erupted from the vortex... and then it gradually dissipated like a deflated ball...

As the vortex vanished... the surrounding spacetime turbulence also began to subside... A silver-blue bead, its surface entwined with spacetime runes, emerged from the center of the void—it was the "Spacetime Orb," the reward for clearing the 85th floor...

Liu Yang slowly landed in the center of the void... Reaching out and placing the Space-Time Orb into his storage bag... As soon as the orb was in his hand... A pure force of space-time flowed through his arm and into his body... The previously chaotic six powers were instantly smoothed out...

The spiritual energy he had consumed also began to recover rapidly... The light of the Emperor Soul Rune in his sea of ​​consciousness became even more dazzling... He felt the power surging within him... A confident smile appeared on his lips...

At this time... Su Qingyao's shadow appeared in the void again... She looked at Liu Yang... The shock in her eyes was even greater than before... Her voice trembled a little: "You... You can actually break the time and space maze in just one hour?

You know... even a true emperor-level cultivator... might not be able to last half an hour on this floor!"

Liu Yang chuckled... and looked at the golden light column that reappeared at the end of the void: "Although the maze is strong... it also has weaknesses... As long as we find the core... even the most powerful defense can be broken..."

He straightened his torn clothes... gripped the ice and fire blades tightly in his hands... and walked towards the golden light column... "I have passed the 85th floor... Next... it will be the challenge of higher levels... I want to see... what secrets are hidden at the top of the Tower of Babel..."

As Liu Yang stepped into the golden beam of light... the challenge on the 85th floor of the Tower of Babel officially came to an end... And at the other end of the beam... the unknown dangers and opportunities of the 86th floor... awaited his exploration...

This level of the space-time maze... not only allowed him to become more proficient in integrating the six powers... but also gave him a new understanding of the power of space-time... laying a more solid foundation for the subsequent levels...

The warmth of the golden light hadn't completely faded yet... Liu Yang already felt a spiritual pressure even more intense than that of the Final Hell Layer—not the violent impact of imperial power... but a cold, dead silence like the boundless deep sea... The moment he stepped onto the 86th layer...

The six-colored shield surrounding him suddenly lit up... In the interwoven light patterns of dark purple netherworld power and emerald green miasma spiritual energy... countless tiny soul shadows emerged... seemingly struggling... or roaring...

"Is this... the Cave of Ten Thousand Souls?" Liu Yang raised an eyebrow... Finally, his feet touched solid ground... but it was a plain covered in dark gray soul sand... Looking out... at the end of the plain stood nine pitch-black soul towers...

Each tower was wrapped in chains... At the ends of these chains were locked countless transparent souls... They were either curled up and trembling... or charging frantically... The silent roars they emitted could cause subtle ripples in the sea of ​​consciousness even from miles away...

Even more bizarre was the countless pale grey soul mists floating in the air. Breathing it in, one could clearly sense the pure soul energy contained within it, yet it was also mingled with resentment strong enough to corrode one's sea of ​​consciousness.

"Outsider... This is the Cave of Ten Thousand Souls..." An old voice rang out from the center of the nine soul towers... It lacked the strangeness of a time-space maze... nor the arrogance of a Final Hell Lord... Instead, it carried a hint of weary majesty...

"Nine soul towers hold back a hundred thousand vengeful spirits... Only by removing the 'Soul-Suppressing Crystals' atop each tower can you clear the level... But remember... every time you remove a Soul-Suppressing Crystal... ten thousand vengeful spirits will break free from their chains... If you become entangled by a vengeful spirit... they will devour your sea of ​​consciousness... and forever bind you to the soul cave..."

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Before he finished speaking, the first soul tower on the far left suddenly shook violently. The chains wrapped around the tower snapped, and several sections broke. Dozens of vengeful spirits rushed towards Liu Yang like arrows.

These vengeful spirits were completely transparent...dark red soul fire flickered in their eye sockets...and as they flew, they left long trails of soul mist...wherever they passed...a thin layer of white frost condensed on the soul sand plain...

If it were an ordinary cultivator... facing a sudden attack from vengeful spirits of this magnitude... they would have immediately activated their spiritual power to defend themselves... But Liu Yang simply raised his hand... and gently flicked the flaming double blades in his left hand... The crimson Burning Heaven Fire transformed into a fine arc of fire...

Swinging towards the group of vengeful spirits... the seemingly weak arc of fire... exploded with astonishing power the moment it came into contact with the vengeful spirits - the Burning Heaven Fire was originally designed to restrain evil spirits...

Coupled with the added power of the Imperial Soul Energy of the Final Hell Pearl... the arc of fire instantly transformed into a sea of ​​fire... engulfing dozens of vengeful spirits...

"Sizzle—" The vengeful spirit screamed silently in the sea of ​​fire... Its body melted at a speed visible to the naked eye... Finally, it transformed into wisps of pure soul mist... floating towards Liu Yang's palm...

He didn't even have to practice his cultivation technique... the soul mists spontaneously merged into his body... his sea of ​​consciousness wasn't eroded... instead, nourished by the soul mists... it became even more stable...

"The Burning Sky Fire Seed restrains the soul body... that saves a lot of trouble..." Liu Yang chuckled... tapped his feet lightly... and with the combined power of the Space Bead and the Time and Space Bead... his figure transformed into a stream of light blue light... and instantly appeared on top of the first soul tower...

The spire is inlaid with a fist-sized black crystal... pale grey soul patterns entwined on the surface of the crystal... it is the Soul Suppression Crystal...

He reached out to take it... As soon as his fingertips touched the crystal... a powerful soul shock suddenly erupted from the tower... countless soul shadows emerged from the patterns on the tower... and rushed towards his sea of ​​consciousness...

"This little trick...isn't good enough..." Liu Yang's eyes flashed with disdain...The Emperor Soul Rune in his sea of ​​consciousness instantly lit up...Dark golden light surged out like a tide...Shattering all the incoming soul shadows...

He effortlessly stored the Soul-Suppressing Crystal in his storage bag... The moment the crystal left his body... the first Soul Tower shook violently... the chains wrapped around the tower broke... nearly ten thousand vengeful spirits surged out like a tide... rushing towards him...

But Liu Yang didn't choose to resist head-on... Instead, he activated the dark red demonic power of the Ten Thousand Demons Pearl... and condensed a huge demonic shadow in front of him... The demonic shadow held a huge axe... and swung it fiercely at the group of resentful spirits... A dark red axe light instantly split the group of resentful spirits in half...

At the same time... he crossed his ice and fire blades... crimson flames and snow-white ice formed a swirling energy ring around him... any approaching vengeful spirits that touched the energy ring were instantly frozen or incinerated... not even a soul mist remained...

"The second one..." Liu Yang didn't stop... His figure turned into a stream of light again... and flew towards the second soul tower...

Surrounding the tower's Soul Crystal...was a pale grey Soul Power barrier...and countless complex Soul Runes emerged on the barrier...

He didn't even pause... The twin ice blades in his right hand slashed out with a snow-white ice blade... The ice blades were infused with the miasma-clearing spiritual energy and the power of time and space... Not only did they instantly shatter the soul power barrier... but they also froze the dozens of vengeful spirits behind it into ice sculptures...

After taking the second Soul-Suppressing Crystal... more wraiths poured out of the tower... even several enormous wraith leaders... their bodies were pitch black... dark purple soul fire danced in their eye sockets... and they clutched giant hammers condensed from soul mist... smashing down on Liu Yang...

But Liu Yang simply dodged to the side... His left hand slashed out with the flaming double blades, sending out a flaming spear... The flaming spear pierced through the body of the Wrathful Spirit Leader... and detonated inside him... The immense impact sent all the surrounding Wrathful Spirits flying...

"The soul core of the Wrathful Spirit Leader is quite good material..." Liu Yang reached out and grabbed the black soul core left behind by the Wrathful Spirit Leader after he dissipated, storing it in his storage bag... Then he continued to fly towards the third soul tower...

At this moment... three of the nine soul towers had lost their soul-suppressing crystals... the number of vengeful spirits pouring out exceeded 30,000... the plains were filled with vengeful spirits... the soul fog was so thick that it almost obscured vision...

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